bababasic

And very much still alive: https://github.com/ianatha/bababasic/ and https://atha.io/blog/introducing-bababasic

Absolutely! Thank you for brining this up! Tracking it as https://github.com/ianatha/bababasic/issues/77

Ah, and I almost forgot, in re the changes: the commit log is the definitive (and painstakingly accurate) log of changes: https://github.com/ianatha/bababasic/commits/main To clarify my slightly obtuse original post, I started this by using PuffinBASIC, but I ended up forking it because there were a few things implemented differently than my reference QuickBASIC 4.5 installation (running on DOSBox): * label syntax / case-insensitive labels * forward function declarations * flexible array indexing (i.e. in QBasic your arrays could start at 0, or at 1, and it somehow figured it out, and it still had bound checks) -- haven't implemented this yet * various functions (VAL, INKEY$, SLEEP) Lastly, and more importantly, PuffinBASIC required Java AWT support (which made it necessitate a desktop), but I have refactored BabaBASIC to abstract the HCI

My father, who hung up his coding hat in the '80s, recently entered the golden years of retirement. One day, he mused about the simplicity and educational value of BASIC and wondered if there was a way to share its charm using today's technology. Specifically, he was looking for an Android application that could run BASIC so he could "teach programming while drinking coffee with [his] friends". Thus, BabaBASIC was born—a hat tip to 'Babá', the Greek term for "dad", and a reminder of who sparked this journey. The first iteration of this was made over a 10-hour all-nighter using existing open-source libraries. I ended up forking the BASIC-like implementation to make it more byte-for-byte compatible with QBasic 4.5, which is what my father used back in the 90s to teach me programming. This is the first thing I have ever made of which he appr